But regardless of whether you found Malick's latest project intriguingly complex or just a cinematic hot mess (albeit, an artistic one), here's something we can all agree on: Terrence Malick and Christian Bale are together again, and it's a glorious thing. Malick and Bale, whose first memorable collaboration was on 2005's The New World, have plans to reunite for an untitled project due to begin production this Spring. The movie will have Bale as the male lead and rumor has it, newcomer Rooney Mara is one of the actresses in consideration for the leading lady.

Need something to hold you over until then? Malick's next film, tentatively titled The Burial, starringBen Affleck and Rachel McAdams, should see a release in early 2012, and will be followed up by The Tree of Life counterpart, The Voyage of Time.